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YOUR UNSEEN GUIDE 



YOUR UNSEEN GUIDE 



By 
CAROLYN SPENCER HALSTED 

AUTHOB OF 

"Ksrow Yccb Destiny" 



NEW YORK 
Febbuaey, 1921 






Copyright, 1921 
Carolyn ^Spencer Halsted 



NEW YORK 
J. F. TAPLEY CO. 



MAY 23 1921 

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FOREWORD 

In my little book, "Know Your Destiny," 
to which this one is a companion piece, I have 
explained that each one of us has a guide. I 
have also told of the language of psychology 
which is a language of prophecy. It is a code 
of signals and is used as a medium of commu- 
nication between you and your guide. I have 
mentioned that there is a law of reincarnation 
about which the world will know when we have 
progressed far enough along psychic lines. 

"Your Unseen Guide" is to be followed by 
another one, "Book of Revelations," which will 
complete the series. 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I. The Manner in Which You Are 

Guided 9 

II. How I Am Guided Consciously . . 39 

III. Omens 55 

IV. The Intermediate State .... 63 
V. Heaven 67 

VI. Spiritualism 72 

VII. The "Spirit Man" Illusion Dis- 
pelled 81 

VIII. Evidences of My Guide's Prescience 85 

IX. Evolution 95 



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CHAPTER I 

THE MANNER IN WHICH YOU ABE GUIDED 

Perhaps it has been your destiny, like mine, 
to come into close touch with your guide, in 
which case my experience will seem to you 
very real and natural, but to the average in- 
dividual it will require some elucidation to 
arouse faith and a clear comprehension of what 
I have been and am passing through. 

In going among people to introduce my first 
book, I find that others have had somewhat 
similar experiences to mine but on a small 
scale, mostly for their own personal guidance 
and not to bring any definite message to the 
world as I am made to do by my own guide. 
One lady hears, as she supposes, the voices of 

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her husband and son, which, of course, are just 
the voice of her guide. 

My former parlor mate at college hears a 
voice which is so masculine, as is also his way 
of leading her, that she thought it must be that 
of her father. It is that of her guide. She is 
and always has been a fortunate person, and 
as such is her destiny, her guide is able to lead 
her along the even tenor of her ways very sat- 
isfactorily. She declares that when she obeys 
his mandates all goes well with her, but if she 
does not heed him and follows her own inclina- 
tions in some matter where he is opposed to 
her way, she always regrets it. She has learned 
it is wisest to obey his voice. She calls him her 
guardian angel. She is an intelligent woman 
and was so successful at college that the 
faculty asked her to return after gradua- 
tion and teach, which she did for one year, 
and then married. She is now the mother of 
two sons and a daughter. She says the owner 
of the voice is her constant companion and she 
feels as if she could not live without him. 

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A woman well known socially and philan- 
thropically on taking my book said she should 
be interested in reading it because she had ex- 
periences of her own with the ouija board. 

Another one has clairvoyant powers. 

A business woman has told me about her 
automatic writing with a pencil. She has had 
other psychic experiences, also, such as hear- 
ing unaccountable noises. At one time when 
she was ill her trained nurse as well as she 
heard the strange rappings and other sounds, 
which made her ask if the lady were a spiritual- 
ist. One night she was hf ted in bed and turned 
on her other side by some unknown force. Her 
writing is dictated by a man who tells her his 
name. He says he lived on this earth formerly 
and was a newspaper man. He makes her 
write poetry and says he loves her. She an- 
swers mental questions about which she knows 
nothing. For instance, a friend asks a ques- 
tion in her own mind without uttering a word. 
The lady then writes an answer which is pro- 
phetic and comes true. All this seems mys- 

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terious, but is perfectly comprehensible when 
you know that the guide of every woman has 
entire control over her mind and leads her to 
do various things for a purpose: to show us 
that we are in direct communication with peo- 
ple in another state of existence, for my guide 
gives me to understand that there is a state be- 
fore we reach the final heaven of the Bible, the 
latter being a world something on the order of 
our own earth. 

Your unseen guide may not be your un- 
known guide, he may have already revealed 
himself to you as mine has to me, and if such is 
the case you will feel as I do, that you know 
him almost as well as if you could see him. 
If he has not done this he is guiding you the 
same but by a somewhat different method. He 
is doing your thinking for you, while if he has 
revealed himself to you he is permitting your 
mind to remain in abeyance and receive the 
impressions made on it by his talking to 
you. 

Let us take a typical person and see how 
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she is guided unconsciously, yourself, for ex- 
ample. It is best to study a woman first be- 
cause she is being guided by a young man who 
stands in the light of a husband to her for eter- 
nity. We can study a typical man afterwards. 
The girl who is leading him is the wife of some 
one else and therefore does not bear to him 
such an important relation. Let us assume 
that you are an average well-born woman. 
Your guidance is narrowed down to a plain 
case of mind over matter. The young man 
who is shaping your destiny has a mind so 
miraculous that he has the power to do any- 
thing he may see fit to do with it. But he 
must follow your prescribed destiny which he 
knows at length from the moment he begins 
to take charge of you. He must work it in 
accordance with the laws of psychology, such 
as the laws of chance, the law of compensation, 
the law of give and take ; also by the language 
of psychology, all the time foreshadowing what 
is to come to you hour by hour and day by 
day as well as year by year. It is a compli- 

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cated piece of work. He holds you in the hol- 
low of his hand, as it were. But he is quite 
equal to it. My guide sometimes informs me 
he is entirely able to take care of himself and 
of his girl as well, meaning me. He knows 
your every slightest degree of consciousness, 
and well he might, as he is giving it to you. 
All the mental processes of which you are con- 
scious, such as your intuition, your instinct, 
your conscience, are only your guide's mind 
controlling yours, and making you think and 
feel as he wishes in order to keep you in your 
prescribed path. I look back now and go over 
how I thought and spoke and behaved before 
I knew I was being guided. I presume I was 
doing very much as other people were and are, 
as I was always practically the average per- 
son, only that I had my own individuality, pre- 
cisely as every one has. I had my ideas as 
to what I wanted to do and have, and put them 
into practice so far as circumstances, seen and 
unforeseen, allowed. 

Your guide began to look after your mental 
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processes as soon as you drew the first breath 
of life. You probably started by letting your 
family know you did not altogether appreciate 
your advent into a new place of residence and 
emitting some plaintive sounds to that effect. 
Soon you indicated that you hungered, and 
later on that you did not enjoy your bath. 
After awhile you developed a happier frame 
of mind, and in time you began to smile. My 
guide, who calls himself Richard, does not tell 
me whether your guide used his mind, or 
whether he let you alone to exercise your own 
small supply of mental power just as a new 
born puppy or kitten would. He does give 
me to understand, however, that he sees you 
as you are and as those about you see you, and 
that he is watching your mind at work, enter- 
ing into all your sensations as if he were once 
again an infant and yourself. There is where 
the dual existence comes into play. Mentally 
he is you, and yet that does not interfere in 
any way with his own existence. To you your 
life is a flesh and blood reality, to him it is 

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only a mental experience for the time being, 
later to assume big proportions. 

At first much is left to the people who care 
for you, your mother, your nurse, your rela- 
tives, perhaps. Their guides are looking out 
for them, so yours does not have to interfere. 
They are factors in your destiny. If you are 
to have a happy one your guide will make you 
do things that bring you what you want. If 
left to your own devices you might not suc- 
ceed in securing what you want because so 
many material and psychological forces are at 
work in the shape of other people who enter 
into your life. While you are a little child the 
persons who have charge of you are moulding 
your destiny, at least seemingly ; in reality their 
guides are influencing them to shape it as it is 
to be. When you grow older you begin to 
work it out more and more yourself, though 
you must always, to a certain extent, come un- 
der the influences of the destinies fulfilling 
themselves around you. 

When you arrive at the marriageable age 
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one of the notable figures in your life will ap- 
pear in the person of the man who is to be your 
husband. He may have been your neighbor 
all along, or he may come from the uttermost 
parts of the earth, a total stranger. "They 
met by chance, the usual ways," goes the old 
song. Its author did not know they were be- 
ing adroitly led into each other's company by 
their respective guides steering them toward 
that consummation when the right time came. 
Your guide will see that after you have formed 
the acquaintance of your prospective husband 
that you say and do what will make you attrac- 
tive to him. 

Your children will be the next important 
event, and then follow the usual ups and 
downs of the average married woman, and so 
on to the end of the chapter when the time 
has come to bid good night to this world. 

How is your guide controlling you? I get 
the idea that his mentality is so intense that 
he reaches your mind through his own, and 
while it appears perfectly natural for you to 

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make some weighty decision, in reality he is 
directing your mind to do so in order that you 
will decide as he knows you must to fulfill your 
own destiny and take your place in the destiny 
of the world. 

The mind is the outcome of the brain, there- 
fore a person with a normal brain must al- 
ways be doing some sort of thinking. The 
brain is alive and acting, so, too, the mind 
must be except in times of unconsciousness, 
as when a person faints from some definite 
cause, or during sleep when the brain should 
rest as the body does. If you dream probably 
your guide is giving you such dreams as will 
indicate what is coming to you. 

^What you call conscience is your guide send- 
ing your thoughts in a certain channel, as is 
also what you call imagination. When you 
laugh he is influencing your sense of humor, 
but you must have a reason for laughing to 
make the act psychologically correct. 

As to who he was when he lived here, it all 
depends on who you are. As you are sup- 

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posed to be well born, he was probably a gen- 
tleman in the same station in life as yourself. 
He may have been an American or he may 
have belonged to some other nationality. He 
lived just before you were born, and passed 
out of this world before you came into it. He 
was reincarnated according to law by his guide, 
a lovely girl, and in that way came into pos- 
session of a miraculous mental power which 
enabled him to know just how to find you, as 
you were perfection for him and measured 
up to all requirements. He is your opposite 
in personal appearance, he being dark if you 
are fair; but your tastes and mental outlook 
are similar. As you belong to a lower state of 
animal life, he may not be especially interested 
in you, except from the big point of view. He 
knows just how to estimate you; how you will 
look and what manner of girl you will be 
when he has finished your guidance here and 
taken you into the larger lif e. He knows you 
will satisfy him and be his complement for 
eternity as you are both bound for a world 

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where every Jack has his Jill, and he needs 
you to complete his life and his happiness. No 
other girl could take your place, as each and 
every one belongs to some other man. It is all 
law. 

We have taken you as a typical case and 
assumed you were a woman. Your destiny is 
therefore a feminine one and your guide leads 
you through it along feminine lines that would 
be correct psychologically. But women dif- 
fer, one is feminine, another masculine. If 
the former, you will think, do and say femi- 
nine things, your guide letting you run your- 
self, perhaps, so long as you do not interfere 
with your destiny. But it is probable that he 
is influencing your slightest consciousness as 
well as your every act. I see this because I 
am conscious of Richard's control even when 
he is not distinctly telling me what to do, as he 
is almost unceasingly. I note how he is influ- 
encing my mind to make me do what he wants. 

You may be sure your guide is directing 
you consistently. If you have masculine tastes 

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he is careful to see that you adopt the usual 
role of athletics, sport clothes, cigarettes and 
cocktails, to say nothing of dogs, horses and 
motor cars, or even aviation. But you are still 
a woman and always will be, so he will manage 
to bring out your feminine tastes and instincts. 
Whatever your personality and character may 
be, your guide will make you live up to them, 
never forgetting the controlling laws of chance, 
compensation, the exception, and all the others. 
If you are fortunate the laws of chance work 
in positive groups. That is, you will have five, 
seven or nine pieces of good luck, and then 
comes something negative. This will be fol- 
lowed by more good fortune. This ratio will 
keep up, always indicated by good omens. If 
your destiny is a negative one, the ratio will 
be just the opposite; that is, numerous pieces 
of bad luck to one of good. 

He directs you in your eating, your work, 
your pleasures. He goes shopping with you. 
When you want something whether trifling or 
important, he knows if you may have it. He 

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sometimes uses your intuition. Your con- 
science, too, is another means of making you 
obey orders without your knowing it. He 
brings into play your senses, touch, taste, smell, 
sight, hearing, as well as that of justice and 
your power to distinguish between right and 
wrong. 

When there comes some crisis in your life 
and you must make some definite decision, he 
makes you scan it from all sides and finally 
choose the wisest course. You could not have 
done otherwise because he already knew what 
you would do. Destinies are worked out in 
real life mostly as in fiction. The good char- 
acters behave well, the villains act as you would 
suppose people of low moral standards would 
under certain conditions. You are the aver- 
age upright person, consequently you usually 
do as you ought; sometimes, of course, you 
fall short and are criticized. Occasionally you 
rise to higher levels and praise comes your way. 
Both of these conditions would be averaging 
your daily life. 

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Children conduct themselves as you might 
expect. They are apt to be thoughtless and 
not very wise; sensitive, possessed of endless 
curiosity and easily influenced. Your life as 
a child sometimes foretells what it is to be as 
a woman. 

If you are devout you will regard matters 
from a religious point of view. 

Some people cannot contemplate any book 
as an authority but the Scriptures. They can- 
not expand far enough to conceive that God 
might have inspired others to bring truths to 
the world as He did the writers of the various 
books of the Bible. Saint John, the best liked 
of any in the New Testament, is supposed to 
have been written about a century after the 
lifetime of our Saviour. It was composed by 
Saint John's guide, a girl in the intermediate 
existence, who knew all about Jesus Christ, 
and thus could lead Saint John to write the 
truths of his gospel concerning Him. 

Your thoughts, language and conduct will 
all be in keeping with your type of character 

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and your place in that type, that is, if you are 
a good woman whether you are just ordinarily 
good, a degree better, or very good. If you 
belong in the first classification you will be 
given more leeway in your point of view and 
behavior than if you are a degree better, when 
you will be somewhat curtailed in every way. 
If you are extremely good you will be made to 
live up to your high ideals. Much depends 
upon your own personality, as each individual 
varies more or less from every other one. If 
you have a happy, gay and vivacious disposi- 
tion you will meet conditions and events dif- 
ferently from what you would were you in- 
clined to view life more soberly. 

When temptations great and small assail 
you, as they do every one, the way that you 
meet them will depend on the type of person 
you are and whether you are one of the ex- 
tremes or the golden mean. You are the aver- 
age good person, therefore you belong to a 
type that is law-abiding, church-going, philan- 
thropic, and generally well behaved; careful 

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of your personal appearance and your choice 
of associates. If you are classified as an ex- 
tremist you will either emphasize all of these 
characteristics by being notably careful to ful- 
fill all requirements, an exceptional person; 
or you will be somewhat careless and lax in 
keeping up to standards. But if you are of 
the medium class, you can be depended upon 
to do what you ought under all circumstances. 

Of course you will now and then do the un- 
expected and upset all calculations. This is 
in accordance with the laws of chance and the 
law of the exception. 

You will have the usual ups and downs of 
life and meet them characteristically, as if you 
were the heroine of a novel. In fiction the 
church member usually keeps her temper and 
bears her ills with fortitude and common sense. 
That is what you do without knowing your 
guide is leading you. 

As you are allowed leeway in nearly every 
respect, and as you have to reckon with the 
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thing seemingly not entirely in keeping 
with your role of goodness; but you practi- 
cally never commit a really reprehensible act 
because that could not happen without de- 
stroying the outline of your type. You are 
supposed to be a typical average good wo- 
man. 

Your conscience, your instinct, your intui- 
tion will constantly come into play. Your 
memory, which is also a mental quality, will 
depend largely on how you preserve your 
health. You usually find that delicate people 
and old ones have uncertain memories. If it 
is natural for you to possess a sense of humor, 
you will see the funny side of people and 
things. In short you are living your life as 
if you were a free will agent, and yet your 
guide is keeping such close watch on your 
slightest consciousness that nothing escapes 
him and he is directing your every thought and 
in that way your every act, so that your life 
will fit into its place in the scheme of the uni- 
verse. It may occupy only a small niche, or 

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it may be of such import that its influence 
reaches around the world. You being the aver- 
age individual, your position is neither insig- 
nificant nor great. You are sure to exert a 
certain amount of influence on the lives of the 
people with whom you come in contact, which 
sometimes bears fruit, and big results develop 
from some idea you have given to your com- 
munity, a philanthropy, or perhaps educational 
or social enterprise. 

We are told that some serve who only stand 
and wait, because there are many people whose 
destinies seem so insignificant but each one 
serves some purpose though it may not always 
be apparent. 

If your destiny is that of a model woman 
probably your guide is not any more inter- 
ested in his task of leading you than if you 
are fated to be a sinner. I get the idea that 
it is an impersonal matter, though it is easy to 
imagine that if you are a delinquent he might 
feel pleasure in redeeming and reincarnating 
you a perfect human being as an immortal. 

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As Richard has not yet told me anything 
about the process, I do not know how agree- 
able the life of the guide may be. When you 
have reached that state you know the infant 
you are to guide through life and reincarnate. 
But you are here on earth at present, and as 
you have not yet learned the language of 
prophecy you are living along unconsciously, 
day by day. When you master that language, 
or at least get an inkling into it, you will begin 
to get a grasp on the unseen, so far as your fu- 
ture existence is concerned. You will begin 
to realize that everything is foreknown and 
foretold and therefore you have a foreseen des- 
tiny that is unalterable. 

If you have a mental voice that talks to 
you, understand that it belongs to your guide 
and no one else whether you have thought it 
that of your husband, father, mother, son, rela- 
tive or friend. At present there is communica- 
ion between you and a total stranger, only. 
Each guide is concerned with the person he or 
she is directing and no one else, because this 

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world is of so little importance and may some 
day be left to its own devices. As soon as we 
know the law of reincarnation we shall be 
ready to learn the future fate of this earth, 
whether or not it is to be abandoned. 

When your destiny is ended your guide 
knows just how to bring your life to a close. 
It may be through sickness, or perhaps by 
some accident. It will all have been indicated, 
as he knows, but you do not, as you do not un- 
derstand the language of psychology. My 
guide has made me recall the lives of my rela- 
tives and friends, and step by step he has taken 
me along and pointed out how the different 
forces were at work shaping each life and 
drawing it to its end. And so your own is be- 
ing carefully worked out with all its different 
factors, people and things and incidents com- 
ing in to make or mar your success and happi- 
ness. Each piece of ill or good fortune, and 
every daily happening being always fore- 
shadowed in some way. If you could stand, 
mentally, and note how the psychological laws 

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are coming into play, it would seem curious to 
you, and so unreal. 

When you comprehend the prophetic lan- 
guage you see just how your guide can pick 
and choose indicators. To illustrate, I went 
to a college graduate today to whom I had 
been sent by another one. Her residence num- 
ber was nine hundred and five, so good, but 
when I entered her apartment I discovered the 
walls were hoodoo in color, but the drawing 
room was lighted by a big red-shaded lamp 
and I caught sight of the portrait of a girl in 
pink, both of which suggested that I should 
meet with success, which I did. There were 
the three good indicators, the number, the 
light and the girl. The result of the negative 
walls I caught later on, as I tried many places 
to dispose of my book that day, but without 
avail. 

If you do not hear your guide's voice, mine 
says you are being led in the same way as I, 
only he is pointing out indicators to me and 
explaining how he is using them, while your 

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guide is controlling you through your mental 
attributes. Today I wanted to know what 
street I had just passed. Richard told it to 
me and then made me turn and look at the 
sign on the lamp-post to convince myself that 
he knew all about it, which he did, for the name 
he gave me was correct, I saw it on the sign. 
Your guide would make you wonder if it were 
not Seventy-Xinth Street, lead you to decide 
to turn and look. When you saw it was you 
would wonder how you chanced to guess it 
aright. 

Perhaps you have premonitions, some people 
do, and you will not carry out some plan be- 
cause you feel that if you should the result 
would be disastrous. This is your guide mak- 
ing you do as he wishes and taking that way 
to accomplish it. A clergyman in denouncing 
the psychic as not religious uses in his book 
the argument that one man on board a ship 
had a premonition that it was to be wrecked 
and so left it at the first port it entered. His 
premonition proved true as the ship sank at 

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sea and all on board were lost. The clergy- 
man asks if God would deliberately save one 
man and abandon all the rest? Wherein he 
shows his ignorance of the psychic. It was the 
destiny of the passengers to perish, but also 
the destiny of that one man to illustrate that 
there was some power with prescience guid- 
ing him. In reality his girl guide who gave 
him the premonition that saved him. 

Let us suppose you to be the average person 
of refinement and intelligence but unlucky, as 
some people are. Your guide is obliged to 
force you to think, say and do things that will 
lead to unfortunate results. He will make you 
decide to marry a poor man, perhaps, because 
you love him; and then comes the pinch of 
poverty. You may have chosen a fine man but 
not a successful one. One struggle after an- 
other comes in rearing and educating your chil- 
dren. They must feel the consequences of hav- 
ing an unlucky mother. Your guide will make 
you choose negative colors, numbers and sym- 
bols; and unknown to you who do not under- 

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stand the code of signals, he will induce you 
to start out to go somewhere just in time to 
meet some negative omen which he will use 
to indicate some trying incident coming into 
your life. You will not recognize it but he 
knows what he wants. I notice how Richard 
now and again hurries me and I rush out to 
come face to face with a couple of somber sis- 
ters of charity. I have never known them to 
fail. If it is not they it is some other ill omen. 
I am familiar with them all now on general 
principles. I unconsciously classify every ob- 
ject I see, whether great or small. Richard 
always discusses the matter with me, but your 
guide cannot with you. I get an impression 
and it is often sufficient; when it is not, Rich- 
ard explains what is coming or oftener he waits 
and draws my attention to the fulfillment of 
the indicator. Sometimes this does not hap- 
pen at once. When it does he makes me go 
back and recall the indicator I noticed at the 
time, but which did not come out immediately. 
If you are a fortunate person, your guide 
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leads you by emphasizing the good omens. He 
will manage to make you come in contact with 
them. What strikes you as still stranger they 
apparently come your way in a manner he 
could not control. Richard sometimes says to 
me that he cannot run the world to suit me or 
my destiny; but he knows the conditions that 
surround me as well as the events of the near 
future and the distant also, so he maneuvers 
to keep my destiny up to its requirements in 
that way. It is plain sailing for him because 
he can foresee what I will think, say and do, 
so he need only lead me accordingly. 

If you are fortunate one good omen comes 
to you after another. Figuratively speaking, 
each corner you turn you confront the God- 
dess of Good Luck. 

I have successful days and I watcn the auspi- 
cious indicators as they prophesy. They fill 
me with surprise each time. I always won- 
der how they managed to arrive upon the scene. 

Types are guided in keeping with their char- 
acter. Teachers have the same general charac- 

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teristics differing somewhat from those of doc- 
tors, lawyers or business people. Authors, ar- 
tists, musicians belong to a type and are easily 
detected. Farmers belong to another type, as 
do fishermen or seafaring men. The society 
girl is typical, so is the college student. 

Your life is moulded by your heredity and 
your home influences. The well born, well edu- 
cated man or woman is usually the product of 
refined and cultured lineage. The anarchist 
or radical comes by his views, mostly extreme, 
naturally from generations of illiterate and 
down-trodden ancestors. There are always 
the exceptions and an Abraham Lincoln is 
fathered by a backwoodsman who can neither 
read nor write. But psychology is at work 
in even the exceptions; there is always some 
influence shaping such a life. Lincoln's 
strong and intelligent mother, for instance. 

If you are a man and therefore guided by 
a girl, you are run along masculine lines but 
usually adhering to some certain or uncertain 
type. The various conditions and forces of 

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your life, often complex, are making you an 
individual. That is, you differ in one way or 
another from any one who has ever lived or 
ever will live. You are being guided in the 
same way as a woman, only your guide does 
not bear as important a relation to you as will 
the girl whom you are to guide, but who can- 
not come into existence until you have passed 
out of it. Your daily life is always being fore- 
told by indicators, and as soon as you grasp 
this fact and learn to recognize their signif- 
icance, the more clearly will you understand 
your own life. 

A lady said to me: "Suppose your guide 
is a bad person, what will happen to you?" 
But there is no such thing as a bad guide. As 
soon as you have put on immortality you are 
perfect and cannot change even though you 
may have been a veritable criminal in this 
world. 

The girl who is guiding you takes very little 
interest in any body or any thing else, so far 
as I know. She will give you all possible lee- 

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way, and is absorbed in her business of putting 
you through your destiny. If you are an un- 
selfish individual she will see that you get your 
just rewards. If otherwise, you may succeed 
in your desires but you will occasionally find 
that elements over which you have no control 
work against you, and your selfishness, like 
a boomerang, comes back and strikes you when 
and where least expected. 

Mere selfishness, however, must not be con- 
founded with self-preservation. Richard tells 
me that both here and hereafter our first duty 
is to ourselves. This makes for progress and 
development. Each individual must make the 
most of his or her abilities, and by making as 
great as possible a being of yourself you are 
encouraging and enabling by your influence 
and your achievements other people to advance 
and achieve. All this is the individual destiny, 
though it may not seem so to you at the time ; 
and you must always bear in mind that what- 
ever you make of your life is your destiny. 

The great law of love works without ceas- 
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ing. We are such an inferior race of beings 
here, that only for our divine possibilities here- 
after we might not arouse much f eeling in our 
guides, but they know what we are heirs 
to, and that makes each one bound to us by a 
tie we can readily comprehend. 

Your guide loves you for time and eternity. 
He saves you because he must to save himself, 
but he does so willingly and gladly always. 



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CHAPTER II 

HOW I AM GUIDED CONSCIOUSLY 

So far as I know, I am the first person to 
explain our guidance. Richard wants me to 
relate the many small and seemingly trifling 
incidents of my daily life, and their signif- 
icance, that every one may know the method 
by which he or she is controlled. He wishes 
me to give the details of his use of the language 
of psychology in order to teach the world that 
there is such a system and its purpose. 

To make known that what people have 
learned of superstitions is a smattering of this 
language of prophecy, a language of symbols, 
and a useful as well as scientific language 
which governs the whole universe, whether we 
know it or not. The sooner we do know it 
the better, he says, for the knowledge of it is 

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an important step in progress. He makes me 
notice how I am being guided by him and how 
comprehensive the system is, and then observe 
that other people are being guided by the same 
method, only they are ignorant and uncon- 
scious of it. 

If you will follow the details of how I am 
guided you will know how your own personal 
guide is controlling and leading you, only he 
is doing your thinking for you and is not talk- 
ing. Richard's conversing with me is a form 
of thinking. His mind controls mine so com- 
pletely that he can make me hear his voice 
mentally and realize his personality. It is al- 
ways his voice and no one's else, and is very 
characteristic of him. He impresses upon me 
the fact that he is a real flesh and blood young 
man who lived like you and me in this world 
and has gone on as we, too, must, into the next 
state of existence, from which we pass into 
the other world as soon as we have severed our 
connection with this one which we do when we 
have guided and translated our charge here. 

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He says he is my soul mate, that is, we are 
perfection for each other. I always feel the 
strangeness of the relationship. It strikes me 
forcibly every time I stop to think about it. 
He is so real, so strong, so manly, and I have 
become so accustomed to him and his guidance, 
and yet he always seems something of a 
stranger to me because I had the greater part 
of my life before I knew I had him, and I 
have never seen him though I know his voice 
so well. It seems to take so much responsibility 
off my shoulders to have him always telling 
and showing me what to do, and yet he con- 
stantly warns me to watch out for myself and 
use my own judgment, counseling me to bring 
into play my knowledge of the world, of its 
laws, natural, psychological and man-made ; of 
people and human nature, always viewing 
things from a practical standpoint. 

He tells me he is my exact opposite, as is 
every man from the woman he guides. His 
eyes are blue, his hair chestnut, his skin red 
and white; he is and always has been strong 

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and masculine. As he has been my companion 
for some fifteen years I have become accus- 
tomed to his ways. It is as if some one in a 
distant locality were constantly communicat- 
ing with you over the telephone. A stranger 
who called you up on important business which 
never ceases. You would soon learn to know 
his voice and his manner of speaking, especially 
if he had a marked individuality, as has my 
mentor. He is always himself and no one 
else. 

When he first came to me I was mystified 
as to what it all meant, but after all these 
years of mental association with him I am en- 
tirely convinced that the voice which speaks 
to me so clearly belongs to a reality, a living 
young man in some other state of existence. 
One of the most convincing proofs is that he 
knows what is coming to pass whether it is a 
minute, a day or a year distant. He indicates 
to me continually so many future events, from 
the most trifling to the important happenings. 
Sometimes he informs me in plain English, 

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but he oftener uses the language of symbols he 
has taught me. 

He says I am just the regular, ready-made, 
practical, logical, educated individual whose 
destiny chances to make my guide reveal him- 
self and talk to me, whereas other people's 
guides are mostly keeping quiet at present and 
doing their thinking for them. He remarked 
to me one day: "You have heard of persons 
having greatness thrust upon them, you have 
had the psychic thrust on you." He informs 
me I do not need to believe what he tells me 
unless I want to ; that it might be a good atti- 
tude for me to sit on the fence, figuratively 
speaking, and scan impartially what is going 
on in my head, weighing the pros and cons. 
But no matter how indifferently I may regard 
it all, I cannot get away from the impression 
he has made and is making on me. I could 
not be a thinking, reasoning being and not by 
this time after all I have been through, feel 
perfectly assured that the voice which I hear 
all the time belongs to a real person ; and as he 

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certainly is not in this world, I conclude he 
must be in some other. I cannot help believ- 
ing he knows everything he wants to, other- 
wise he could not tell me and indicate what is 
to occur in the future. I cannot tell when left 
to myself, can you? I can now do much bet- 
ter than you, however, because I have studied 
the language of prophecy, the new tongue 
which is as old as the incoming of man to this 
sphere, probably, and that comes to my assist- 
ance. 

Another convincing proof of his reality is 
his humor. He is so witty, so droll, so full of 
fun, that he makes me laugh continually. I 
never realized before what a force humor is. 
It appeals to me so conclusively when he shows 
up the funny side of things with his keen wit. 
He turns and twists people's words and atti- 
tudes, their traits of character, and actions, 
always hitting the nail on the head. And 
yet he is so lenient toward their shortcomings, 
it is such a kindly wit. He is so sharp he 
cleaves "the very soul from the spirit," as the 

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Bible says. He transcends the keenest wit of 
any one I have ever met or whose writings have 
come to my notice. He is supernatural and 
yet so natural. He is the most human of hu- 
man beings with whom I have ever been 
brought in contact. He asks why should he 
not be, he has lived here and been one of us, so 
he knows all about us and our point of view, 
but he has come into a life and a power of 
which we have no slightest conception. 

Another reason that inclines me to believe 
what he tells me is that it is all precisely what 
we want, and having your desires fulfilled is 
what we are supposed to find in heaven. Every 
normal man or woman here, whether young 
or old, craves love, and there is no love so de- 
sirable as that of man and woman for each 
other. That it is all perfectly arranged before- 
hand by law, makes it all the better. Hus- 
bands and wives who are happy in their love 
here cannot understand why they are not to 
have each other for eternity. Richard meets 
this situation by explaining that it is well for 

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us not to try to apply our finite standards to 
the infinite, as we belong to a totally different 
order of human beings mentally, when we have 
put on immortality, and that alters our lives, 
our outlook and our mode of living. We have 
gone up so much higher in the scale of human 
life, are so superior and inhabit a so much more 
wonderful world that it would be laughable, 
if it were not so serious, our attempts at 
fathoming and regulating eternal life and 
laws. But, he continues, we have fine minds 
here, capable of development and expansion, 
of penetrating the great sciences and applying 
the marvelous laws waiting on all sides to be 
discovered, comprehended and put into prac- 
tical use. We are capable of grasping and will 
grasp the scheme of eternal lif e when the times 
are ripe for us to have it told to us, though 
we may not be able to realize it and cannot 
enter into it until we have put on immortahty. 
We shall have to accept it as a fact when it 
comes to each one of us in due time, as we 
have to accept life here. We know we have 

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these wonderful bodies and more wonderful 
minds, though we do not know where they 
originally came from or how we chanced to 
have such curious possessions as minds which 
are the most inexplicable adjuncts of our 
make up. Without the mind life would be a 
failure, and yet it is intangible, there is noth- 
ing real to it except the results growing out 
of having it. An abnormal person who is be- 
reft of his mind loses his grasp on life. If 
all the minds in the universe suddenly became 
blank, what would the consequences be? 

We can get some insight into the life of the 
other world when we try to grasp that each 
one of us on entering immortality is equipped 
with a mind that can perform any kind of a 
miracle imaginable. That is the idea I get 
from Hichard who proceeds to give me partial 
proof by demonstrating that he knows every- 
thing, past, present and future that he has 
complete control over me, body and mind ; and 
by making me realize that he, a man in some 
other existence, is entering into my daily rou- 

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tine and causing me to laugh, besides, with 
his drollery. 

He says I am his constant companion, he 
can see me always as plainly as if he stood be- 
side me. I infer that this is due to his miracu- 
lous mentality, but that there may be a law 
of electricity as yet unknown to us that enables 
people to see at long range as well as hear by 
long-distance telephone. 

People ask me if I believe what Richard 
tells me, it does not make any difference 
whether I do or not I cannot change anything. 
I had nothing to do with his mental advent 
into my life, and I cannot prevent his talking 
to me almost without cessation, or help hear- 
ing what he says as he speaks plainly in a 
clear voice. He has taken possession of me 
seemingly as a matter of course, which was 
something new to me, but he says as he always 
had possession of me mentally from the hour 
of my birth, his relation to me is nothing new 
to him only my destiny forced him to employ 
a somewhat new method of guidance. He is 

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always where I am. As I walk down or up 
Fifth Avenue he comments on the people I 
pass precisely as if he were stepping beside 
me. He admires the pretty girls and women 
or remarks on the personality of the men. He 
makes me notice every one I see as a separate 
individual and also in the mass. He classifies 
them or lets me do so in a sort of group sys- 
tem. I have studied them so carefully that I 
now get a conscious impression of each face 
and general make-up the instant they meet my 
view without my seeming to sum them up ; the 
intelligent person, the intellectual, the strong, 
the weak, the practical, the good, the evil, the 
attractive, the plain, the well born, the middle 
class, the fashionably attired, the unusual, the 
commonplace and others of striking or notice- 
able appearance. He makes me distinguish 
the American from the foreigner and reason 
out why I can tell the difference, as in some 
instances it is not easy to decide. I see all faces 
and figures through American eyes, but I am 
guided by a young man who tells me he was 

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a foreigner in his former sojourn here; a very 
foreign foreigner, whatever that means. He 
does not enlighten me as to whether he was an 
Englishman of distinctly English proclivities, 
whether he came from Russian territory, or 
from the Orient. He declares that in the land 
where he now belongs, "We are all Ameri- 
cans," meaning that we are all alike as to lan- 
guage and traits, though all retaining our 
own individualities. 

I am always conscious of him except when 
I am completely absorbed in talking, reading, 
thinking or watching some action, as a play, 
but even then only for a few seconds or per- 
haps minutes. I always wake up to him again 
as soon as the tense mental strain is relieved. 
He often greets my returning consciousness of 
him with recognition of my lapse into oblivion, 
as "Well," or "Did you think you were rid 
of me?" or "That I had forgotten you?" It 
always seems good to return to him, to feel that 
there really is some person in that mysterious 
world of our faith, who is a friend and who 

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will help me all he can even though he cannot 
or will not alter my destiny, hard as it is, some- 
times. He is such good company and always 
shows me his knowledge of my slightest thought 
or sensation, as well as act. If I cut my finger 
he sympathizes with me by saying: "It hurts, 
does it not?" and directing me to bind it up. 
He is a skillful doctor, but only along natural 
lines known to me. He believes in simple 
remedies, such as sunshine and fresh air, whole- 
some food and sleep, exercise and a free mind. 
He says if you are ill you can be cured by any 
school of treatment whether medicine, osteop- 
athy, Christian Science or any other, if it is 
your destiny, but always through knowledge 
and expert treatment. The doctor will un- 
derstand your case so well that he will be able 
to apply the exact remedy necessary for your 
recovery; it may be some drug, an operation, 
or only correct living. All the other practi- 
tioners will use their special lines of treatment 
with the desired results. But if it is your des- 
tiny not to recover, not one will hit upon the 

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solution of your case. There is virtue in every 
school, but none is infallible. 

Of all the interesting men I have ever met 
he is the most interesting, and I am glad he 
belongs to me for eternity. 

He is known to me as "Richard, 5 ' but he 
does not specify if that was his name while 
here. It is one that I like as it is strong, and 
it suits him. He calls me by all sorts of ap- 
pellations: Carolyn, which is my real name; 
Caroline, as people who do not know how to 
spell or pronounce my name, say or write it; 
Carrie, which has always been my familiar 
name, the one my family and intimates use; 
"Mrs. Richard," as he says he stands in the 
light of a husband to me; "Sister" and "Girl," 
also "Mrs. Dingbat" when in a jocular mood, 
but only when something disagreeable has hap- 
pened or is about to happen to me. He is par- 
tial to the word "Dingbat," and has coined 
the adjective, "dingbatish," meaning more or 
less wrong or obnoxious. I first saw the word, 
dingbat, in one of the morning papers in the 

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column devoted to fun. I think it must be of 
German origin. I did not know its meaning, 
but from the sense in which it was used it sug- 
gested something objectionable. It undoubt- 
edly took Richard's fancy, as he forthwith 
added it to his vocabulary. He speaks of any- 
thing he dislikes or disapproves as "dingbat." 
If I come in contact with some one who incom- 
modes or annoys me, he calls him "the dingbat 
man," or if a woman, "the dingbat lady." 
When conditions or events are trying he dubs 
them "simply dingbatish." 

His way of expressing himself, the different 
tones of his voice convey so much meaning. 
In the morning when I begin to wake and am 
too sleepy at first to rise, he urges and coaxes 
me in a persuasive voice. "Will you get up?" 
he begs. "Oh, please do." "Have you any 
idea how late it is?" His tones sound so clear 
and distinct. I know he is only joking, but I 
lie there and laugh at him, he seems so much 
in earnest, as if he were taking it to heart 
whether or not I rose on time. 

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One day on the street he said something so 
irresistibly funny that I burst out laughing. 
A man coming along asked, "What are you 
laughing at?" Of course I could not explain, 
but only hurried on. Yet his fun is not any- 
thing that can be repeated. It is just con- 
nected with the every-day occurrences. He in- 
forms me it is not his destiny at present to 
pose as a wit for the edification of the world, 
that he possesses a sense of humor like the rest 
of us, and uses it naturally ; also that he is help- 
ing me with a serious destiny, and that there 
is not any positive influence much better than 
smiles or laughter. 



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CHAPTER III 



OMENS 



Their name is legion; good, bad and indif- 
ferent omens, all so potent in regulating our 
lives. For about three years previous to Rich- 
ard's revealing himself to me, he began to 
teach me the language of prophecy without 
my knowing it, through inclining my mind to 
notice omens, the conventional ones, like a 
horseshoe, and others not traditional, as a red 
rose, by associating them with some event. I 
had never paid any attention to such things, and 
consequently when I began to notice them so 
markedly, it surprised me. I found that every 
time I saw one or more red roses, some happy 
event appeared upon the scene. The horse- 
shoe worked wonders. I recall my experiences 
with it in connection with a well known period- 

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ical. I had offered my work to the editor many 
times, always, with one exception, receiving 
the same polite refusal. As I had a series 
which seemed especially fitted for the publica- 
tion, I decided to try once more, so I sent it 
off. While awaiting a reply I noticed from 
my window, one morning, an old battered 
horseshoe with the auspicious rusty nails in 
evidence. It stood upright in the muddy coun- 
try road, as I was staying in a small college 
town at the time, doing some college literary 
work. I casually noticed the standing erect, 
the correct position to hold in the luck, but 
did not pay much attention to it. Finally, as 
it continued to stand there, after a few days 
the thought occurred to me to pick it up, know- 
ing its traditions. This I did, washed off the 
mire and stood it in my room. It soon lived 
up to its reputation, for a letter arrived in- 
forming me my series had been accepted. This 
made me regard my horseshoe with something 
of amusement but a little more faith which 
was increased later on when one evening as I 

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OMENS 

was returning home through the fields I spied 
another one. I thought without much serious- 
ness, "This looks like 'The Rising Sun Pub- 
lication/ " and picked it up. Stopping at the 
post office for my mail I took thought on the 
subject when an official looking letter was 
handed me bearing the inscription of the pub- 
lication and containing a check for one article 
I had just written for it and ordering another. 
I kept a horseshoe on hand after this incident 
and found it worked wonders, as I had much 
success. Richard directed me, all unconscious 
at that time of his guidance, to have a special 
one made. I went to a shop and watched the 
smithy fashion me a pretty little shoe from 
fine metal. When it was finished I paid him 
and as he handed it to me he declared, "It is fit 
for Salvator," a noted race horse. I knew it 
was a good omen meaning "to save." I tied 
it with a red ribbon lovers' knot and it accom- 
panied me on my travels for years. It proved 
a veritable charm for I alwavs landed safe and 
sound in New York. 

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He makes me get indicators for some spe- 
cial purpose, and when I recognize that the 
coming event has arrived he tells me to give 
them away or cast them aside if they are soiled 
or worn. Such a one was a red heart he or- 
dered me to make out of satin. This was espe- 
cially designed to indicate my coming journey 
to California where I had always longed to go 
because my father was the only lawyer in that 
state at the time of the discovery of gold. He 
was young and went in the spirit of adven- 
ture, returning with a bagful of golden nug- 
gets, one of which he had set in a brooch for 
my mother. It was a beautiful piece with such 
a rich color just as it came from the bed of a 
river. I was accustomed from my childhood 
to see her wear it, and inspired to see the land 
which produced it. They say all things come 
to him who waits with patience, my going at 
last was one of them. 

At first the little heart was very small and 
dark red. I pinned it on my blouse and wore 
it out. The next was larger and brighter, in- 

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dicating California was coming nearer. The 
third was larger and brighter still. Finally 
just before I started I bought a big red satin 
heart, a jewel case, and carried my pieces of 
jewelry in it all the way to the Golden Gate. 
He often called my attention to the posters of 
"The Girl of the Golden West," a play popu- 
lar at that time, as prophetic. I certainly ar- 
rived and had a variety of peculiar psychic ex- 
periences which I prefer not to relate because 
they were too closely interwoven with my prr- 
vate life and personal affairs. They were con* 
vincing of some miraculous power controlling 
and leading me for a purpose. When I reached 
California, Richard directed me always to 
draw any money I needed from the bank, in 
gold pieces, and keep them in my red heart 
jewel case which he made me leave behind when 
I returned to New York where I discovered 
the banks would not pay gold, a bad omen for 
me as for every one. Money was short on 
all sides, prices soaring but not the rate of 
interest on investments. I have been long- 

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ing for my red heart and my gold ever since. 

He then made me buy a string of blue beads 
and one of pink, as they are auspicious, but 
not good like red. He promises me a string 
of red ones as soon as my destiny will admit 
of them. At present I am not having a bril- 
liant fate, consisting as it does of disposing of 
one book and writing another, with a depleted 
bank account and all the accompanying dis- 
comforts; also no time to take any recreation 
even at a moving picture production, provided 
I could find a positive one, for many of them 
are so negative that they are harmful. We 
need more like the Yale-Harvard pictures of 
the boat race, all creation profits by such a 
scenario. The blue and red of the big univer- 
sities were true prophets and brought a pro- 
duction of great value. 

I cannot recall any omen more reliable than 
a colored pencil or pen. If I apply to a per- 
son for any reason I can practically always 
foretell the result if he or she chances to be 
owning or using a pencil or pen if I note its 

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color, which of course I now cannot help doing. 
A red one proclaims, "Success," a negative 
colored, "Failure." Richard has me use a red 
pencil that marks with the same color. This 
does not mean that I always have success with 
it, because there are sometimes negative forces 
at work too strong for my red pencil; but it 
is a big asset, and always has some value. 

This brings us to the subject of why nega- 
tive and positive indicators do not apparently 
always bring what results you would expect. 
When I started out with my book I began to 
apply my principles. I determined I would 
avoid negative days, streets, numbers, names, 
colors, while clinging to everything positive. 

Richard soon showed me that I must not avoid 

i 

anything but the hoodoo number and some- 
times the hoodoo color if very bright and used 
in quantity. He pointed out as I stopped 
wherever I was to find a friend or 'acquaint- 
ance, or I had been sent, that if the number 
was poor the color of the house was good. If 
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the interior satisfactory. When the name or 
number of the street would have deterred me, 
on investigating further the lady I sought 
proved correct in appearance and cordial re- 
ception of me and the psychic. He illustrated 
for my benefit that the language of psychol- 
ogy is comprehensive and for a purpose; that 
our guides know how to use it and we are about 
to learn its intricacies through practice. It 
is a medium of communication between us and 
our guides, and we are gradually getting into 
closer touch with each other. We are to have 
perfect communion by means of the psychic. 
You can become familiar with the principles of 
the language and your guide will use it for 
your edification, but you cannot always inter- 
pret it correctly because you do not know the 
various forces at work, and your finite mind 
cannot grasp how and why it is used, just as 
the ignorant mind cannot grasp the higher 
mathematics. 



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CHAPTER IV 

THE INTERMEDIATE STATE 

Richard gives me the idea that as soon as 
you finish life here your guide changes you to 
a young and beautiful person, though retain- 
ing your personality and individuality, and in- 
vests you with miraculous power. You have 
then become an immortal and are ready to take 
up your duty of guiding your charge here. 
You cannot enter heaven, another world simi- 
lar to this, until you have finished your task 
and severed your connection with this one. 
While you are leading your charge you are 
existing in space far above this sphere. You 
can tread the air just as Christ walked on the 
waters. When you have reincarnated your 
charge you leave him before he starts to guide 
his charge in this world, so that for the time 

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being he has no connection with it. You are 
then set free and leave him to his work of guid- 
ing the new born girl who is to be his soul 
mate for eternity. You enter the other world 
and never again have any connection with this 
one, mentally or physically. In this way you 
lose your hold on the man you have been guid- 
ing, but you part only temporarily; he will 
join you and be your best friend, as soon as 
he has guided his own girl through her life. 
It is all accomplished by law. We have al- 
ways regarded the psychic as of so little im- 
portance but we are beginning to awaken to 
the fact of its tremendous value as we learn 
more and more of its power over the material 
in its effect on our lives here. 

The reason for an intermediate state is that 
the change from this world could not be at 
once to heaven because this world is a negative 
as well as positive one and it taints everybody 
and everything that comes in contact with it. 
All destinies must suffer in consequence, some 
more than others. It had to be used as the 

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place for our creation because the process of 
carrying out the law of procreation is so nega- 
tive that it could not occur in a perfect world. 
As soon as your guide gets you away from this 
objectionable sphere and its detrimental influ- 
ences, your transformation commences and he 
is free to apply the laws, probably of elec- 
tricity, to make you perfect and endow you 
with the required miraculous power. You 
could not enter heaven otherwise, as any nega- 
tive attributes, mental, moral or physical, 
would at once begin to assert their harmful in- 
fluence on the immortals. All is joy and glad- 
ness there, due to innumerable positive and 
protective laws. 

The word translate might be a more ap- 
propriate one than reincarnate, as life is prob- 
ably never allowed to leave us, as we have al- 
ways supposed it did, from visible evidence 
here. In endeavoring to lead me to the truth, 
Richard brings me to the statements in the 
Old Testament that Enoch was translated, and 
that the prophet Elijah was seen to rise and 

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disappear, dropping his mantle upon the shoul- 
ders of Elias. He explains that those cases 
may have been foreshadowing the fact that 
every one who lives or has lived since the crea- 
tion of human life here is taken up bodily by 
his or her guide and no one is any the wiser, 
as your guide can do anything with you he 
needs to. The idea I get is that life is so pre- 
cious and is created at such a cost that the 
flame must never be allowed to go out. There 
are several well known pictures of winged 
young men bearing maidens toward and be- 
yond the stars. These may have been inspired 
as suggesting to us the mode of procedure 
adopted by our guides. 

I get no conception of the intermediate state 
further than an existence amid clouds and 
vapors, but of the real world, the heaven of 
the Bible, Richard gives me clear cut, beautiful 
mental pictures with God and Christ the cen- 
tral figures. 



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I gather from what Richard tells me that 
the plan of life in the other world is simpler 
than here, because no negative laws exist there 
to interfere with and frustrate the positive. 
The negative laws of this world create all sorts 
of complex and involved situations and condi- 
tions, keeping us in continual turmoil. Life 
there is serene and in many ways larger, 
broader and stronger as well as more intellec- 
tual and wonderful. 

He does not enlighten me as to what we do 
there, only suggesting that perhaps we follow 
our own bent, whether science, art or a frivo- 
lous career. As regards continual progress 
there may be development and application of 
laws and resources, but when you have reached 

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perfection it would seem there was nothing 
more to which to attain. 

I get the impression that the other world is 
much larger than ours and that it is now so 
well filled with those who have lived here and 
gone on that it cannot comfortably hold many 
more, as we are allowed plenty of space. That 
is why the Bible predicted the ending of this 
world, only it is not the sphere itself, only the 
human life on it which is to end. The sphere 
will continue for time and eternity perhaps, 
to revolve on its axis and around the sun, and 
possibly animal life may continue, but human 
life will not. We were put here to fill heaven, 
and when we have accomplished it the reason 
for our life here ceases. When the time ar- 
rives we will all go together, possibly within 
a year, as our guides can take us at the psy- 
chological moment our destiny calls for. But 
it is too far distant yet to contemplate. 

No children are born in that other world 
because there would soon be no room for them 
and they would be crowding some one out. 

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There is no reason for them as there was here, 
so we have no desire for them. 

I had two mental pictures of our life in 
heaven given me, no more. The first was my 
entrance there after my task in the interven- 
ing state was finished; the other, a glimpse of 
how we enjoy ourselves, a typical and sugges- 
tive scene, pleasant to contemplate. 

I sat quietly while Richard pictured it all 
to me mentally. It seemed almost like a view 
of living tableaus we often see on the stage, 
it was all so real, and picturesque. In the first 
one I saw myself attired in light blue soft 
draperies falling from my shoulders, with bare 
neck, arms and feet. I looked like myself, 
but was a lovely young girl. I seemed to have 
come to a standstill and waited just on the 
border of a picturesque country stretching far 
back filled with beautiful young men and 
women. God, a noticeable figure in white, 
stood at the right a little distance apart, while 
Richard, a veritable Prince Charming in white 
satin with blue collar and a pink rose pinned 

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to his lapel was near to greet me. I could 
hear their voices which sounded sweet and mu- 
sical. They seemed to be twitting Richard on 
the arrival of his soul mate. He took their 
bantering in good part and was smiling at me. 

The other picture showed a broad campus 
stretching away, with trees and autumnal 
foliage of rich coloring, and great festoons of 
grapes and rare fruits. Young people were 
dancing so gracefully, singly and in groups, 
holding each other's hands, their feet bare also 
their limbs, arms and necks. They wore rather 
short draperies which floated out as they 
danced, as seen in some of our notable paint- 
ings ; the colors were red, white, blue and pink. 
Evidently it was a festival season, beautiful 
deep blues and reds the festival colors. 

Richard said the pictures were meant to con- 
vey the idea of youth and happiness always 
there, surrounded by an atmosphere of bright 
light, as of sunshine, with no night and no 
sleeping; perpetual joy and gaiety. 

"In my Father's house are many mansions," 
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I am led to believe means for each youthful 
couple, "A house not made by hands, eternal 
in the heavens," as we are promised in the 
Bible, where every young man and the girl 
now so precious make a home together for 
eternity. 



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spiritualism: 



Modern spiritualism has been in existence 
for about seventy-five years and for the past 
fifty years the believers have taught that every 
one in this world is being guided by some one 
who has lived here and gone on. But they 
think you can be guided by any one, whereas 
I am taught to reduce it all to law. One lady 
thinks she is led by Zoroaster; another, by 
Abraham Lincoln. A physician in good stand- 
ing explained to me that he had several guides, 
one of whom was Plato. I am told by Richard 
you are never in communication with any one 
but your guide by law. He or she leaves this 
life on the eve of your entering it. All clair- 
voyants bring you messages from their guides 
only. The information may be very valuable 

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in many ways, but they are never from your 
relatives or friends. The Bible tells us that 
with God all things are possible. So with our 
guides, they are enabled to accomplish any de- 
sired end, no matter how marvelous. Every 
psychic phenomenon since creation has been 
gradually leading us up to this great truth. 
Christ said: "Greater things than these shall 
ye do, because I go unto my Father." He did 
not explain what we should do because He 
knew we had not progressed far enough to re- 
ceive the explanation. He lived nineteen hun- 
dred years ago and we have been progressing 
all that time. 

God knew that this was a more or less nega- 
tive world and that its condition affected every 
one entering it, therefore parts of the Bible 
would reflect its pernicious state. Studying 
it from the psychic point of view throws new 
light on it. 

The spiritualists have always been somewhat 
decried by people who did not understand the 
bigness of their teachings, but they have gone 

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right on and are steadily growing in numbers 
because they never lose sight of the great 
truth that we are all in direct communication 
with people who are in the next stage of ex- 
istence. Their characteristic features which 
arouse criticism, such as rappings, table tip- 
pings, seances and others will fade away un- 
der the practical direct communication of our 
guides. There will no longer exist any reason 
for such demonstrations. When Richard first 
came to me he gave me a few experiences such 
as rappings and prophetic visions, to show me 
how and why such phenomena happen, but we 
laugh at them now for the reason that I have 
outgrown that early state of psychic affairs. 
Why make me write with a mechanical pen- 
cil or use a ouija board when he can tell me 
what he wants me to know, or flash some com- 
ing event by our code of signals, the language 
of psychology? The methods he uses will de- 
velop and expand, and the revelations about 
this and the future life will be systematic scien- 
tific evolution along psychic lines. He shows 

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me that every minute of the day I am being 
led correctly from a psychological standpoint. 
I have progressed beyond the teachings of 
other people in many ways, and yet I am build- 
ing largely upon the foundations laid by other 
seekers after the truth. I know nothing by 
myself, it is just what I am told. The noted 
psychists investigate the phenomena brought 
to their notice. I do not need to investigate 
because I give the fundamental principle un- 
derlying the whole mass of phenomena, or the 
psychic in its entirety ; namely, our guides, who 
have lived here and gone on, and who possess 
the same power as God. I have been made to 
investigate, or rather, to study the language 
of psychology, and I find it the truth as my 
guide elucidates and interprets it as a language 
of prophecy and a psychic code of signals. 

The reason for all the phenomena is to let 
us know the truth about the world to which 
we all go, and the process has been necessarily 
slow. Why there has been so much mystery 
and falsity about a good deal of it, is that we 

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are in a negative world and get the negative 
consequences along with the positive informa- 
tion and revelations. When you study the 
negative side to this world, together with the 
negative laws, both material and psychological, 
controlling it, you no longer feel any surprise 
at the negative side to the psychic which is 
being constantly brought to our attention. 
You are thankful for the positive side, for the 
proofs of a life hereafter. The increasing 
number of guides who are speaking mentally 
to us, are the most convincing of all the 
phenomena, as they are something with which 
we have nothing to do. They come to us seem- 
ingly unheralded and without any effort on 
our part, their mission apparently, to let us 
know of their existence and what that fact 
means to us here and hereafter. 

When you lose your relatives or friends you 
cling so intensely to the memory of them and 
think of them as exactly the same as when 
with you, therefore it is difficult to understand 
that in reality they have put on immortality, 

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and that there is a gulf between the mortal and 
the immortal which is only spanned by the 
mortal putting on immortality. It is hard for 
you to realize that a dear husband who has 
passed on is no longer interested in you as 
you are in him. But everything is the same 
for you, while it has all changed for him. He 
is interested only in the new little girl whom 
he must guide and who is his soul mate hence- 
forth and forever; whereas your soul mate is 
still guiding you in this world. Your husband 
now knows that he cannot change your des- 
tiny in any way, and that in your future ex- 
istence you and he will be delightful compan- 
ions always. 

Materialization, the spiritualists avow, is due 
to electricity and mesmeric forces. Richard 
explains that it is accomplished by the guides' 
understanding certain laws connected with 
electric power. The people who appear be- 
fore the spiritualists in material form, seem- 
ingly solid flesh and blood when touched, are 
not so in reality. They exemplify how the 

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guides can use electricity, the greatest known 
force here or hereafter, except the immortal 
mind. It is possible that the vital reason for 
materialization is in translating us from this 
life to the next state. By its use the people 
of this world could be hoodwinked into believ- 
ing our bodies were lying lifeless here, while 
in truth they were whisked away by our guides. 

It has been made clear by a physician that 
the so-called "psychic eye" is a material cell 
of the brain, located back of the lower part of 
the forehead, and is used only by persons hav- 
ing clairvoyant powers. It is the substantial 
matter producing, or giving out, the conscious 
ability to predict coming events, or to know 
what has already happened unknown to others. 

Some people think animals are to migrate to 
the other sphere, but Richard vetoes this idea. 
The fondness for animals is a phase of this 
life which does not continue because it belongs 
to a lower order of mentality. We have no 
desire for them just as we would have none for 
children for the reason that the purpose of 

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their existence ceases in this world, the new 
one being governed by different laws, having 
gone beyond this earth's limitations. 

Richard says not to take life too strenu- 
ously. Be as great and good as you can, for 
what you are here shapes your character here- 
after. Do not be too downcast if you cannot 
learn all about our psychic relations with the 
other world and its inhabitants. Progress is 
slow, and it would not be consistent to hasten. 
Grasp and believe all you can, and pass by 
the incongruities without too much criticism. 

Some of the psychists promulgate the idea 
that your spirit lives separated from your body, 
just how they do not reveal, though they do 
go so far as to suppose that it clothes itself in 
some enveloping substance similar to the ac- 
customed one here. They seem to lose sight 
of the fact that the spirit is only a mental at- 
tribute. 

A newspaper article gives an account of a 
scientist who believes he can photograph the 
soul as it departs from the body. In the first 

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place, perhaps it is never allowed to depart; 
but if a picture could be made, it would be 
only of the vapors or gases exhaled from the 
body as life became extinct. The mind, the 
soul and the spirit are without substance of 
any kind, and depend on a living body, of 
which the brain is a part, performing its natu- 
ral functions. As soon as the brain ceases to 
act, the mind, soul and spirit cease. Our en- 
trance into this world is material, and it is 
probable that our departure is also, brought 
about by another even more wonderful law. 
The psychic as it continues to unfold itself to 
us is going to keep us pinned down to law, 
logic and common sense. 



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THE "SPIRIT MAN" ILLUSION DISPELLED 



There are no such things as spirits, good 
or otherwise, or any other mystic or mysterious 
creatures here or hereafter. Ghosts, appari- 
tions, phantoms, visions or wraiths as well as 
hallucinations are produced by your guide 
when your destiny chances to require such; 
they are only figments of your brain, but they 
always serve some purpose. No one has ever 
lived in spirit until he or she was created by his 
or her parents, and then the so-called spirit is 
part of the mentality. We call psychology 
the science of the mind ; the dictionary defines 
the word as the "science of the human soul," 
showing that the mind, the soul and the spirit 
are synonymous terms. 

When you are born you possess an embryo 
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mind, soul, and spirit; the mind developing 
first. It is the practical member of the men- 
tal trio. The soul and the spirit are more 
what we term "spiritual," they gradually 
evolve with the expansion of the mind. We 
associate the idea of the soul with the here- 
after. It is with the soul that our finer selves 
stretch out toward God, therefore we have al- 
ways conceived it to be the intangible portion 
of us that in some unknown way was wafted 
into the eternity of our Biblical teachings, 
promised to the faithful. Our conception of 
the spirit is that it is not so deep as the soul. 
It is the beautiful, unselfish, kindly attribute 
which some people have in a greater degree 
than others; we have seen it in Phillips Brooks, 
the present Bishop of London, or to go back 
farther, Martin Luther. It is Godlike or 
Christlike. We sometimes imagine both the 
soul and spirit returning to our Creator, thus 
supposing them to be separate qualities. My 
guide often reveals to me his soul and spirit 
by his sweet sympathy when I am passing 

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through some of the trying experiences which 
come to us all ; by the way he leads my thoughts, 
my soul and spirit, to higher and better aspira- 
tions ; to charitable consideration for other peo- 
ple; to more perfect ideals. 

We sometimes hear the expressions, "The 
spirit of God within us," or "The Christ within 
us." Jesus, Himself, said: "My Father is 
in me and I am in you." But, like the phrase, 
"God is Love," these are only figures of speech 
which Christ in His teachings uses so often, 
as He does the parable. 

The immortality of the soul is explained, so 
Richard says, by the law of reincarnation, or 
translation, about which we shall know every- 
thing in due time. That law is the key to our 
knowledge of the hereafter, and is the great- 
est of all laws. 

Richard declares there could no more exist 
a mind, a soul or a spirit outside a living flesh 
and blood body than there could be a set of 
teeth without a mouth to grow them in. The 
teeth are produced in the mouth by a natural 

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physiological law ; the brain produces the mind, 
the soul and the spirit by another, but there 
psychology conies into play also; and because 
our mind is totally different from our material 
teeth, we at once give free rein to our imagina- 
tion and conjure up all sorts of unfounded 
theories and beliefs in regard to our minds and 
their possibilities, both here and hereafter. 

We have heard the other world referred to 
as the "Spirit World," and its inhabitants as 
"Spirit Man;" but Richard says to free your 
mind of any ideas you may have of there being 
any "spirits" in that universe. It is a world of 
solid flesh. 

You are never reincarnated in this world in 
some other person. You never lose your own 
identity. You are always yourself for time 
and for eternity. 



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EVIDENCES OF MY GUIDE'S PRESCIENCE 



Richard shows me in the various incidents 
of my everyday life, how he is watching over 
me. He often warns me of coming danger 
where automobiles are concerned in the 
crowded thoroughfares. I was traveling not 
long ago and in changing trains, I did not 
know which way to go to make connections. 
I turned to the right and started toward one 
end of the platform. In my haste I did not 
notice at first that he was warning me, but as 
I rushed forward he called, "Carrie! Carrie! 
Carrie!" so sharply that I stopped and turned, 
knowing I must be going wrong. He directed 
me to a gentleman waiting near, from whom I 
inquired the way. He told me what to do. I 
hurriedly followed his directions, down one 

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stairway, up another, reaching the track just 
in time to catch my train. Then Richard re- 
marked: "Did I not tell you so?" as he some- 
times does when he shows he is guiding me and 
I can surely trust him. 

Occasionally he informs me I cannot reach 
my destination down a certain street, then 
makes me turn into it to prove he was right. 
I find it is so and am obliged to retrace my 
steps. He then has me ask the way from some 
one but not a person wearing negative colors, 
or a negative person, a soldier, for example, 
as everything connected with war is negative. 
He will say : "Do you expect to get what you 
want from such a person?" Time and again 
he has made me question negative people in 
order to get results. Almost invariably they 
proved he was right. Now I understand so 
well that he says I do not need to be told any 
longer to avoid negative indicators. 

He calls my attention to the sameness and 
the difference between when he guided me un- 
consciously, and now that I know of his con- 

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trol. I live my life day by day very much 
as I always did. Formerly I thought out what 
I intended to do, now he talks to me of my 
plans and directs me. 

One word alone, "love," "red," "nine," 
"roses," "brides," will convey to me his mean- 
ing. I know they are all positive, while their 
opposites are negative. If I were about to 
turn a corner to call on a lady, I should know 
he meant me to do so if he said "love;" but if 
he used its opposite, I would change my plan 
and go somewhere else, understanding that 
for some reason I was not to go there. 

On the street he will speak of something I 
am approaching of which I know nothing, as 
I proceed I find it there as he predicted. 

In Coronado, California, he guided me often 
by a red revolving lamp in a lighthouse. When 
I left for San Francisco by one of the big 
steamers, Yale and Harvard, he made me sail 
in the latter because of Harvard's color, crim- 
son. As we sailed away I noticed another red 
revolving light in a second lighthouse, and 

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thought at once that I ought to see a third 
somewhere to complete the auspicious trilogy, 
I forgot about it but he did not. In the mid- 
dle of the night he waked me up and made me 
look out of my stateroom window, and there 
was the third, the finest of all, a big red 
revolving light away out in the Pacific 
Ocean. 

He shows me that guides are no respecters 
of persons. He does not hesitate to put me 
through my paces. I have to face the music 
as others do who are guided unconsciously. At 
first I thought it would be otherwise, but I 
soon found I reckoned without my host. He 
shows me how kind and thoughtful he is, but 
that he must work out my destiny. He is par- 
tial to me wherever it is possible, but fate is 
inexorable, and he cannot interfere with it 
whether it is agreeable to me or not. 

He exhorts me to rise above the petty, per- 
sonal, selfish point of view; to endeavor to 
grasp life, its meaning and complications, with 
big and broad-minded standards; not to take 

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life too seriously, but slip along and get 
through with it, doing the best in my power 
to meet whatever comes my way with common 
sense and Christian principles. 

People say to me: "It must be a comfort 
to you to have your guide." In many ways 
it is, but it does not change my destiny which, 
like that of every one else is due to a perfect 
network of intricate influences, among them 
my lineage stretching back indefinitely to my 
initial ancestors. They are all natural. At 
times I grow low-spirited when I go among 
people endowed with the good things of life, 
and compare my hardships. Then he says in 
a facetious way, "Cheer up, Sister, you may 
not have their riches, but they do not have 
your Richard. Is it not worth a fortune to 
be told you have a good-looking chap in an- 
other state of existence, taking good care of 
you in this, and only waiting to carry you into 
the other and be your devoted slave for all 
eternity?" 

His nonsense makes me feel how small I 
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am to bother about my discomforts when I 
know they are only temporary, until I can get 
out of this negative life into a happy one. I 
only have to study the indicators every way 
I turn, to realize there cannot be for most peo- 
ple lasting happiness here. No matter how 
much good fortune comes your way, there is 
always something cropping up to interfere 
with it. If you are a Christian you find com- 
fort in the truths and promises of the Bible, 
only they do not seem real as his gay young 
voice telling me what a glorious place the other 
world is, and what delightful surprises await 
me there. He quotes the lines of the tired-out 
lady, "Who lived in a house where help wasn't 
hired/' 

"Oh, mourn for me not, 
Oh, mourn for me never, 
I'm going to do nothing 
For ever and ever." 

"But," he adds, "we are pretty energetic 
when arriving on the environs of that other 

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world, and do not feel inclined to do nothing 
for ever and ever; we prefer to be up and at 
it. If you want to saw wood to pass the time 
away, you probably will not find much wood 
to saw, but there is plenty doing, and more 
exciting." 

He says I am still a lower form of animal 
life, so far as he is concerned, but very like 
him physically. He descends to my level men- 
tally without injury to himself, but with my 
unillumined mind I can never rise to any com- 
prehension of his state of being while I am 
here. 

He does not inform me what the life of the 
guide is like in the intermediate state, but he 
throws some light on it by putting the ques- 
tion to me: "Do you suppose it any too pleas- 
urable for a young gentleman to be kicking 
his heels around, dancing attendance, year 
after year, on a poor little mortal grub in a 
negative world?" 

He does say we shall never be in communica- 
tion with heaven by wireless telegraphy or any 

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oilier medium, because this is a negative world 
and contaminates to a greater or less degree 
everybody and everything in it or connected 
with it. Therefore we are debarred from any 
possibility of injecting earth germs into the 
other world's perfect atmosphere. 

He shows me how the mind controls the 
body, and the guide controls the mind. 

He is so masculine, and yet he declares it is 
hard for him to show his manhood because he 
is putting in the background his own person- 
ality in order to enter into and guide the life 
of a very feminine woman. 

He at times makes me choose a different 
course from what I or any intelligent person 
would naturally, when some crisis arises where 
I must make a decision and act accordingly. 
I have learned that every step in his guidance 
of me is for some purpose, so I obey him. I 
then find by what follows that it was right to 
do as he directed instead of my way because 
events happened of which I knew nothing but 
he foresaw. He explained to me that I was 

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right because working in the dark, but that 
he knowing the future led me safely. 

He calls my attention to the fact that the 
psychological laws go right on working, just 
as the natural laws do whether we know it or 
not, and there is the advantage of having a 
talking guide, he knows everything and can 
help us out. In this way, when all people are 
guided consciously, it will be correct psycho- 
logically to make destinies much happier than 
is the average one now. 

Richard keeps me up to the mark when at 
times I would take the easiest way of doing 
what I must, and it is negative. It is difficult 
to live up to positive requirements, but I know 
the right means now of doing so, because I 
have had a competent instructor for so many 
years who has been patient with my slow prog- 
ress. He has showed me plainly by each fail- 
ure or success that it is far wiser to at least try 
to avoid the negative laws and keep the posi- 
tive. It is easier to go along and do as you 
like at the time regardless of consequences, 

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but the latter come, and I find my guide is 
now a ruthless taskmaster. He is conscious 
that I know what I ought to do, and he thinks 
it best now to compel me to live up to his pre- 
cepts in spite of my inclinations. It is trying 
at the time, but I always feel sure it is best, 
that he is really sparing me in the end. "As 
ye sow, so shall ye reap." Your thoughts, 
words and acts of each day, even to the slight- 
est omission and commission, are indicators of 
your future whether near or in the distance, 
this you learn. 



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EVOLUTION 

We can follow each step in the development 
of this world and now we are to see how this 
life merges into the next and last phase of 
our creation. 

The mind is the somewhat mysterious ele- 
ment of organic life, and yet the most vital. 
We watch its unfolding in the three groups, 
the plant, the animal and the human being. 
Now we are going to have the privilege of 
studying its final stage, the mind of the immor- 
tal. It has taken all these ages, since the birth 
of the universe, for us to progress sufficiently 
far to be ready to grasp and apply the laws 
bearing on our relations with the hereafter, 
though we have been pointing toward that goal 
always. We are preparing to go quickly now. 

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The geologists assure us the narrative in 
the Bible of the creation of this world is scien- 
tifically correct ; at first formless and made up 
of gases, vapors and other chemical substances. 
Then it began to materialize, hardening .into 
solid inorganic composition. Later organic 
life made its appearance in the shape of vege- 
tation. Next came the lower animal, and 
finally man who combines in his make up some- 
thing from each original group, chemical con- 
stituents, mineral constituents, the carbohy- 
drates of plant life, the flesh and blood of the 
animal. We must leave this earth to attain 
to the final stage in evolution. The whole 
scheme of it here is for the purpose of filling 
a perfect world with a perfect race of beings, 
man immortalized, like us in body and mind, 
but the superman. He has reached the acme 
which defies progress. 

That other world must have been in exist- 
ence an almost incalculable period of time. 
We shall now get away from the idea of mere 
spiritual life there, as the truth is more and 



EVOLUTION 

more impressed upon us that we retain our 
solid proportions. We are to become familiar 
with the thought that there is nothing mys- 
terious or awe inspiring connected with it. 
Wonderful, surely, but this world is made up 
of wonders. 

So long as this world is inhabited by hu- 
man beings it will continue to improve and 
progress, but Richard points out that it can 
never be a fit place to dwell in if we aim for 
perfection, because of its climate, its weather, 
its dirt, its negative laws. It is best to termi- 
nate the existence of the human race. This is 
probably toward what we are progressing. 
Like wireless telegraphy, when the right time 
comes the predicted end of the world will ar- 
rive naturally, but it will prove very different 
from what we have pictured it. The world is 
forging ahead leaving the old methods behind. 

The knowledge of the psychic and the con- 
sequent mental enlightenment will gradually 
revolutionize existing conditions. When all 
guides can reveal themselves to their charges 

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and have a free intercourse and a free hand 
instead of being tied down as at present by 
the complete ignorance of the truth now every- 
where prevailing, the general run of destinies 
will change. The average person will have a 
charmed life, guided away from ills and mis- 
haps, and we shall approach as near the mil- 
lennium as is possible in this negative world. 
Your guide to be trusted must inspire confi- 
dence. He must prove his own reality. This 
you will find he is competent to do when he 
comes. He will prove to you without a doubt 
how the psychic governs the material in this 
world. 

Richard has made me understand that the 
guide is a living being similar to ourselves, and 
that it is the mind that varies from that of the 
inhabitant of this world rather than the phy- 
sique. I get the idea the brain is the organ 
that differs in form and composition more than 
any of the others most of which are very simi- 
lar. The cells are for a different purpose and 
therefore totally different and function differ- 

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ently. That is why we cannot enter into the 
point of view, or what is more important, per- 
form the mental work or attain to the achieve- 
ments of the immortal. 

An animal here can never use his mind as 
does man. 

It is not the proportions of the cells, but 
their power. The head of the immortal varies 
in size only a little from that of man here, and 
that is only to carry out the symmetry of the 
body which is on a little larger scale. The cells 
of the immortal brain are dynamos of incalcu- 
lable power, and can be used in countless ways. 
Their possessor has complete control over 
them, the mind which is the outcome of such 
cells, being as inconceivable as the cells them- 
selves. Such a brain and mind come in con- 
tact with existing laws which do not exist for 
the human being of this world because they 
are beyond his reach physically and mentally. 

We know how a person completely broken 
in health here because of his disregard, per- 
haps not wilfully but owing to unavoidable 

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circumstances, of the laws governing the body, 
can be restored to health by being taken in 
hand by some one, as a doctor, and made to 
live a normal life. Such a man if taken to a 
good sanitarium would be subjected to a pre- 
scribed course of treatment and made to sub- 
mit to the known laws of nature. He would 
have his daily sun bath, his massage, his out- 
door sleeping porch, his alternating rest and 
exercise, his deep breathing practice, his care- 
ful and scientific diet, his cheerful environment 
and pleasant companionship, his recreation and 
diversion, his hygienic clothing, his avoidance 
of harmful habits and influences such as al- 
cohol, narcotics, degenerate people. In short, 
he would be led to keep the positive laws and 
avoid the negative with the resultant restora- 
tion to health. 

Something on this principle the guide with 
his limitless knowledge and power takes the 
human being from this world who has been 
his charge, and reconstructs her, keeping her 
intact and preserving her personality, individu- 

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ality and character ; altering where the coming 
new existence requires it, and exchanging, or 
rather, transforming the old incompetent brain 
cells and consequent mentality into the dynam- 
ic force that knows no obstacle where ends 
must be accomplished. 

This is the new force to which we are being 
introduced, and yet as old as human life here 
on earth, and who has always been communi- 
cating with us to a certain extent through our 
minds and by his known code of signals. 



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